Both parallel programming and asynchronous programming are examples of concurrent programming, meaning more than one operation is running at the same time. Parallel programming is a more specific form ...

Microsoft is planning to move its Dryad parallel/distributed computing stack from Microsoft Research to Microsoft's Technical Computing Group and deliver a final version of that technology to ...

Two Google Fellows just published a paper in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM about MapReduce, the parallel programming model used to process more than 20 petabytes of data every day ...

High Performance Computing (HPC) and parallel programming techniques underpin many of today’s most demanding computational tasks, from complex scientific simulations to data-intensive analytics ...

1 Write MPI programs and implement them on a cluster computer. 2 Describe the different paradigms and architectures of parallel and distributed systems. 3 Describe the different parallelization ...

We consider a distributed parallel server system that consists of multiple server pools and a single customer class. We show that the minimum-expected-delay faster-server-first (MED-FSF) routing ...